come,--to let her know that
she must accommodate herself as well as she could to the bargain made
between them in their marriage-deeds; which was to lye-in of her next
child in the country, to balance the last year's journey.

My father was a gentleman of many virtues,--but he had a strong spice of
that in his temper, which might, or might not, add to the number.--'Tis
known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,--and of obstinacy in
a bad one: Of this my mother had so much knowledge, that she knew 'twas
to no purpose to make any remonstrance,--so she e'en resolved to sit
down quietly, and make the most of it.

Chapter 1.XVIII.

As the point was that night agreed, or rather determined, that my mother
should lye-in of me in the country, she took her measures accordingly;
for which purpose, when she was three days, or thereabouts, gone with
child, she began to cast her eyes upon the midwife, whom you have so
often heard me mention; and before the week was well got round, as
the famous Dr. Manningham was not to be had, she had come to a final
determination in her mind,--notwithstanding there was a scientific
operator within so near a call as eight miles of us, and who, moreover,
had expressly wrote a five shillings book upon the subject of midwifery,
in which he had exposed, not only the blunders of the sisterhood
itself,--but had likewise super-added many curious improvements for the
quicker extraction of the foetus in cross births, and some other cases
of danger, which belay us in getting into the world; notwithstanding all
this, my mother, I say, was absolutely determined to trust her life, and
mine with it, into no soul's hand but this old woman's only.--Now this
I like;--when we cannot get at the very thing we wish--never to take
up with the next best in degree to it:--no; that's pitiful beyond
description;--it is no more than a week from this very day, in which
I am now writing this book for the edification of the world;--which is
March 9, 1759,--that my dear, dear Jenny, observing I looked a little
grave, as she stood cheapening a silk of five-and-twenty shillings
a yard,--told the mercer, she was sorry she had given him so much
trouble;--and immediately went and bought herself a yard-wide stuff of
ten-pence a yard.--'Tis the duplication of one and the same greatness
of soul; only what lessened the honour of it, somewhat, in my mother's
case, was, that she could not heroine it into so violent and hazard